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Hurricane Earl has been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, but the New England coast can still expect some nasty weather. The storm lashed the North Carolina coast overnight, the AP reports, and forecasters predict it will stay away from New Jersey and other mid-Atlantic states today before coming very close to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, which could get gusts up to 100mph. Warnings for other areas, such as Long Island, were reduced or dropped.

"We’re preparing for the worst," says the assistant town manager in Nantucket, where streets have been sandbagged and more than a thousand vessels hauled from the sea. “They’re a very hardy bunch, the islanders. They’ll say it’s just wind and rain, but they’re preparing." The National Hurricane Center predicts that Earl will make landfall in Nova Scotia on Saturday, when it could still be at hurricane strength.

they keep hyping these nothing hurricanes trying to prove Global Warming. Everybody I know down there is glad for the rain breaking a long dry spell. so where are the thousands of hurricanes Global Warming models predicted??

zaglossus

Sep 3, 2010 12:45 PM CDT

Cable news, hoping for another Katrina, preempted even their regular prime time shows to cover this. As in so many of these pending natural disaster storm/hurricane stories that peter out, they end up this morning once again with egg on their faces.